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How vertical is the immunization service delivery and supply chain information managment system when they are migrated into electronic paltform? Should it be part of routine HMIS or LMIS system? or a separate one?...

Dear all,
Shifo has released an article on cost-effective and scalable way of measuring data completeness/reliability of Electronic Immunisation Registries.
This method will simplify measuring the quality of data of Electronic Immunisation Registries on a systematic and regular basis. This method may even be applicable for measuring better data of Electronic Health Records in other health domains, such as Nutrition, Maternal Health, Integrated Community Case Management and others.
When healt...

Greetings, colleagues.
With increasing importance on user-focused improvements in routine, administrative immunization data quality and use, it is useful to have some experience-sharing from country learning and implementation. Linked below are a few recent blog posts and an article on in-country review meetings that may be of interest. These include experiences from Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Madagascar and Uganda.
1) Zimbabwe defaulter tracking: http://thepump.jsi.com/community-lea...

A new release of ICE (v1.8.1.0) is now available. (Download ICE v 1.8.2.0)
The release includes the following changes:
Updates to the Polio Vaccine Group and the Meningococcal ACWY Vaccine Group to better reflect latest guidelines, and addition of Influenza vaccine (CVX 185) to the Influenza Vaccine Group.
Combines PCV and PPSV vaccine groups into one, new vaccine group for Pneumococcal. This change was made to better account for shots administered across the patient's lifetime.
(To suppor...

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